Spreadshirt Makes Personalised Royal Baby Products Available Within Hours of Name Announcement

July 25, 2013 - PRLog -- Spreadshirt (http://www.spreadshirt.co.uk/), the e-commerce platform that lets anyone create, sell and buy ideas on things consumers love to wear, use and carry,has reacted quickly to naming of the royal arrival with a personalised babygrow (http://www.spreadshirt.co.uk/design-your-own-t-shirt-C59/product/113904243/view/1/sb/l). Within hours of the announcement of Prince George of Cambridge, new designs with the baby’s name have been added to its range of products.

The platform enables both royalists and republicans to produce a more personalised range of merchandise to mark the occasion. Spreadshirt’s print-on-demand technology also means that its shop partners can keep their sites fresh and topical by quickly uploading new designs. There are hundreds of thousands Spreadshirt shops open around the world, using the platform 24 hours a day.

“Spreadshirt is focused on enabling self-expression in e-commerce. The speed at which design ideas can be up for sale means that individuals can be at the heart of current events.” states Philip Rooke, CEO at Spreadshirt. “It’s about letting individuals choose or create one-of-a-kind celebratory pieces of clothing.”

Babygrows with HRH Prince George Alexander Louis of Cambridge or I was George first (http://www.spreadshirt.co.uk/design-your-own-t-shirt-C59/...) are now available and the designs can be easily transferred to any of the other clothing or accessories on the Spreadshirt platform.

Royal births are normally celebrated with a 41-gun salute; the birth of HRH Prince George of Cambridge is being celebrated with a range of souvenirs and the country is expected to spend in the region of £243m celebrating the birth, according to the Centre for Retail Research. Mementos are expected from the Royal Collection Trust, Prince Charles’ Highgrove shop, along with a collection of baby things from the Middleton’s company.

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About Spreadshirt

Spreadshirt, the leading e-commerce platform lets anyone create, sell and buy ideas on things consumers love to wear, use, and carry. For the more than 45,000 active online shops selling around the world in 2012, the Spreadshirt platform offers a flexible, risk-free, print-on-demand approach with multiple points of sale. Spreadshirt’s fulfillment service handles everything from production and payment to shipping (within 3-5 days in the UK) and customer service.

In the e-commerce retail sector of creative ideas on apparel and accessories, there are currently 4 different models that can be used to create a product or shop, Spreadshirt is the only platform to offer all 4 and continually enhances each option: Create your own, Marketplaces, White-label shops, fulfilment.

Founded in 2002 in Leipzig Germany, Spreadshirt is a global company with Headquarters in Germany and the United States and factories in North America, Germany and Poland to allow rapid delivery to customers.  For additional information, visit Spreadshirt on Twitter, Flickr or Facebook.

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